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The Soul of Fire: How Charcoal Changed the World

By John Uhlmann and Peggy Heinrich. Explores the many facets of charcoal and how man has utilized this tool from the Stone Age to outer space. Softcover, 160pp., 1987.
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$27.00

The Elements of Mining and Quarrying

by Clement Le Neve Foster. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. The illustrations and pages are scanned as a way of preserving Foster's text.
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$52.00

Basins of Silver

By Eric Twitty. The story of Silverton, Colorado's Las Animas Mining District.
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$42.00

Blown to Bits in the Mine

By Eric Twitty. Describes the evolution of explosives in the mines and quarries in North America from the Industrial Revolution to the twentieth century.
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$31.00

Contemporary History of Industrial Explosives in America

By Joe Dannenberg. Changes in the explosives industry from one of the most recognized names in blasting, focusing on the profession.
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$21.00

Dynamite Stories: And Some Interesting Facts About Explosives

By Hudson Maxim with added material provided by Donald J. Haarmann. This book touches upon the comedies and real life tragedies of dynamite.
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$27.00

Explosives: History with a Bang

by G.I. Brown and Adam Hart-Davis. This title tells the dramatic history of explosives, from the invention of gunpowder to the H-bomb.
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$31.00

By Don "Nick" Clifford, born in Pierre, SD on July 5, 1921, grew up in Keystone, SD, home of Mount Rushmore. As a young man Nick "played baseball every day, rain or shine, " he recalls. In between ball games Nick would watch and visit with the men working
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$16.00

Pierre S. DuPont and the Making of the Modern Corporation

By Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. & Stephen Salsbury. This biography is a business history of the problems and challenges Pierre faced.
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$70.00

Riches to Rust

By Eric Twitty. A guide to mining in the old west.
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$36.00

Speck: The Life and Times of Spencer Penrose

By Robert C. Olson. As the author aptly puts it "in the anals of American history there was probably no greater two-fisted, hard-drinking, high-rolling tycoon of the Rockies" than Spencer (Speck) Penrose. Born into a Philadelphia blue-blood family in 1865
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$23.00

The Exploding Whale

By Paul Linnman. A very entertaining book about the exploding Oregon Whale and much, much more.
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$29.00

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